Graduate Students

The IoA is involved in instrumentation and surveys in the optical and infrared. Current instrumentaion projects include Project 1640 which searches for extrasolar planets and Lucky Imaging which uses high speed CCDs to remove effects of the atmosphere. The IoA also has a leading role in the Planck and GAIA ESA space missions.

Survey work includes the Vista Hemisphere Survey (VHS) and the Local Volume Legacy Survey (LVL). VHS surveys scales from local stars to z=7 galaxies while LVL uses Spitzer data to survey 258 galaxies within 11MPc.

GREAT is a pan European science driven research infrastructure which will facilitate, through focused interaction on a European scale, the fullest exploitation of the ESA Gaia 'cornerstone' astronomy mission.

The PathGrid initiative is a collaboration between the IoA and medical oncology and pathology researchers, utilising advanced image analysis and data handling techniques to handle high throughput medical imaging data.

PLATO is one of the three medium class (M class) missions selected for definition study in the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program. Its goal is the discovery and study of extrasolar planetary systems using transits.